Re: guile can't find a chinese named file

[David Kastrup]

Mike Gran <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thursday, February 16, 2017 9:39 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
>
>>> You assume that Emacs concatenates strings by just splicing its bytes.
>>> But that's a far cry from what Emacs does, precisely to countermand
>>> such problems.
>
>> Good to hear. If Guile is to adopt a similar approach, it should pay
>
>> attention to these details as well.
>
> Guile stores strings as codepoints, and by concatenates and splices
> strings in codepoint space.  It never concatenates strings as bytes.

Code points are an abstraction while the discussion is about the actual
implementation.

-- 
David Kastrup